Client | Museumscenter Blåvand Fonden, Dänemark |
Architects | BIG Architects, Kopenhagen |
Planning | 2012-2014 |
Execution | 2015-2016 |
Construction cost | ca. 22 Mio. Fr. |
Services | Structure: Design phase Tender documentation phase Execution phase |
Engineering partner | Johansson & Kalstrup, Varde/DK |
Award | 2019 AIA Award - Architecture Nomination Architizer A+ Award 2018 |
Topics | CultureConcrete constructionFair faced concrete |
The new museum was placed next to an existing World War bunker in the dune landscape of Blåvand. The building ensemble is divided into four rooms or halls, which were constructed as concrete structures. Their structures work independently, but are coupled via a common floor slab. The distinctive cantilevered and prestressed ceilings of up to 13 m are characterized by hyperbolic geometries, each of which is different from the other. The ceiling, “Wing Walls” and “Cross Walls” of each room form a closed structural system. The wing walls act as horizontal bearings for the cantilevered ceiling, they were partially offset in the axes due to geometric constraints. The continuously arranged cross walls form frame structures in conjunction with the ceiling sections. Along the exterior walls, the rooms are backfilled to floor level, the floor slab cantilevers one to two meters behind the exterior walls. According to the angular retaining wall principle, the buildings are stabilized by the earth loads and tensile forces in the foundation are avoided. The ceilings and walls were realized as fair faced concrete components.